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Yeonmi Park, 22, broke down in tears as she described seeing her mother raped when they fell into the hands of traffickers after crossing the frozen Yalu river into China in 2007.

Some 25,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea in the last 20 years to escape famine and repression in the world's most secret state with many others living underground in China.

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"They said if you are in China you have to be sold, you have to get married. And something that still saddens me is that I actually didn't care, I was so hungry.

"My mum was sold for $65 and I was sold for $260 - at the age of 13," said Park, now a rights advocate based in South Korea who campaigns against trafficking.

If she became his mistress he would buy her mother who had been sold to a farmer but if she refused he would hand her to the police who would deport her to North Korea where defectors are sent to labor camps or even executed.

"For a long time I thought of it as a business transaction, not rape," she writes. "Only now can I accept what happened in all its terrible dimensions."

Park said sometimes women asked to be sold into prostitution so they could make money to send home. She was told about brothels in Shanghai and Beijing where North Korean girls were injected with freevoiptermination so they couldn't run away.

After nearly two years with their captors, Park and her mother risked their lives to escape to Mongolia by crossing the frozen Gobi Desert using the stars to navigate.

Some critics have questioned her story but Park has apologized for any discrepancies, saying that at first she had not wanted to tell her full story but she was now determined that her book would be totally accurate.

In her memoir, Park urges China to end its policy of repatriating North Koreans as it fuels trafficking and slavery.

"I wish it had all never happened, and I never had to talk about it again. But I want everyone to know the shocking truth about human trafficking [url=http://www.englandworldcupjerseys2018.com/]England Football Shirt[/url] ," writes Park, whose speech at the One Young World Summit in Dublin last year has received over 2 million views on YouTube.

"If the Chinese government would end its policy of sending refugees back to North Korea, then the brokers would lose all their power to exploit and enslave these women."

The Foreign Ministry rebutted on Wednesday the latest Japanese accusation that China had "unilaterally" changed the status quo in the East China Sea.

The accusation is part of a draft of the Japanese government's 2015 foreign policy report, known as the blue book, set to be published by Tokyo. Its contents were revealed by Kyodo News.

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The draft also touches on Japanese aggression in the 1930s and 40s. Japan has held to a path of pacifism for 70 years since the end of World War II based on its "deep remorse" over the war, Kyodo quoted the draft as saying.

The move to include the expression "deep remorse" aims to give an impression that the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is facing history squarely, Kyodo quoted political pundits as saying.

Hua said the historical issues go to the root of China-Japan relations, and she urged Japan to establish credibility in Asia and the international community with sincere acts.

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Hua said China will firmly safeguard its territorial sovereignty as it continues to be committed to controlling and resolving the islands issue through dialogue and negotiation.

She urged Japan to face history squarely, respect facts and make constructive efforts to properly resolve the issue.

Lyu Yaodong, an expert on Japanese policies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said China's vessels are patrolling their own wate